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Re: Get form version history with webservice

The Todd — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:26:23 GMT

Thanks Hilary! That worked!

So now that I have the data connection.. I have a structure for the webservice that looks like this: (all icons in the tree are folders with locks on them except for the fileName, which has a file-icon)

MyFields

queryFields

ns3:GetVersions

fileName (file icon)

dataFields

ns3:GetVersionsResponse

GetVersionsResult

Is there a way to pass the current filename into the service and pull the version history data out for that file?

I'm a bit new to this and I'm just trying to grasp how it works with the webservice.

Thank you

Re: Get form version history with webservice

Hilary Stoupa — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:11:05 GMT

From MSDN, for Versions.GetVersions:

Parameters

fileName

A string that contains the site-relative URL of the file in the form Folder_Name/File_Name.

So, your list/filename.xml should be correct, if that is the relative URL.

However, when I tried this, I found that I had to URL encode my relative path. So instead of Shared Documents/filename.xml, it had to be Shared%20Documents/filename.xml.

All that being said, just because we can create a data connection in InfoPath successfully to a web service, doesn't mean that we are going to get back anything that InfoPath can use - the data connection I created could probably have the returned data accessed programatically, but the XSD created by InfoPath just goes to a group level.

Re: Get form version history with webservice

The Todd — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:42:46 GMT

Thanks! I'm sorry, I'm trying to use the webservice, but I'm not having any success getting it to work correctly. That's why I was asking if there was a better way to accomplish this. I'm sure it's some little thing i'm missing. When I try to add the webservice connection it asks for a sample value. I've tried entering the filename and different forms of a filepath with no luck. It seems very straightforward. Devil's in the details right? haha

sample values I've tried:
http://servername/sitename/list/filename.xml
list/filename.xml
filename.xml

Also, when I changed the path. I changed the webservice address accordingly for example: (I wasn't sure if it would make a difference)

http://servername/sitename/_vti_bin/versions.asmx
http://servername/sitename/listname/_vti_bin/versions.asmx

Thanks again,

Todd

Re: Get form version history with webservice

Patrick Halstead — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:05:56 GMT

Hi The Todd and welcome!

What's your goal? Seriously, if it works for ya, great!

Get form version history with webservice

The Todd — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:25:34 GMT

G'day,

I'm trying to use the versions webservice to get the current form's version history and display it in a read only format. Am I going about this in the correct way or is there a better way to accomplish my goal?

Thanks in advance!